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From: pete@hao.UUCP (Pete Reppert)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: cubic roots
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 18:00:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 18:00:43 1985
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  O.K. I take it there just aren`t any easy-as-pie ways
  to find the roots to a cubic eqaution except synthetic
  division, which doesn`t seem to work always. How do you
  know when not to use synth division, and of the many 
  other baroque methods, which are most popular? What 
  indicators do you look out for, etc.?
			 

			  
      Any replies, wisecracks, etc. welcome.
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 Pete Reppert
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